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Colleen Galambos, PhD, FGSA, LCSW

Helen Bader Endowed Chair of Applied Gerontology
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Colleen Galambos, Ph.D., LCSW, LCSW-C, ACSW, FGSA, FAASWSW, is professor and the Helen Bader Endowed Chair in Applied Gerontology at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and adjunct professor, Medical College of Wisconsin. She is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare and a National Association of Social Workers Pioneer. In 2020, she was named a Woman of Influence by the Milwaukee Business Journal. In 2023, she received the Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work's Leadership Award. Her practice experience includes clinical, administrative, policy, and research positions in a variety of health and long-term care organizations. She currently serves on the Aging and Disabilities Resource Center of Milwaukee County Wisconsin and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine's Health Care Services Board. She is past chair of the Aging Practice Section and former Board Member of the National Association of Social Workers. She was a member of two Consensus Study Committees with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the Health and Medical Dimensions of Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults, from 2018 –2020 and The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality from 2020 - 2022. She also served on the National Academies of Medicine Vital Directions Project in 2020-2021. In 2024, she co-chaired the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine's Essential Health Care Services Related to Anxiety and Mood Disorders in Women initiative. Dr. Galambos’ active research areas include care transitions, aging in place, health and long–term care systems quality improvement, gerontechnology, older adults and behavioral health, practice approaches in work with older adults, family caregiving, and competency-based gerontological education. She is a graduate of Cornell University, University of Maryland at Baltimore, and The Catholic University of America.

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